May122015

Peyton Fulford asked her Tumblr followers to send her “phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own words.” She noticed that most of the phrases had to do with love, and she decided to specifically focus on the phrases that dealt with “love and melancholy” because, as she explains on her blog, “I wanted to diverge from the usual happy, celebratory phrases on banners by using sad, more realistic phrases.”. Fulford takes these heartbroken fragments from people’s lives, creates banners out of these messages, and hangs them up around abandoned buildings throughout Columbus Georgia because, as Fulford puts it, “I felt that they were more visually appealing and portrayed the same sort of distress and abandonment as the quotes expressed”.